The New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band, The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band – Mountain Moving Day
(Rounder Records 1972 4001)
Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners and some rubbing/ringwear
Booklet in Nr MINT condition
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band and the New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band (1969–1973) sought to challenge the genre of rock music by installing women’s voices and feminist-type lyrics into the musical canon. “We loved to dance,” stated bassist and vocalist Susan Abod, but referring to a song like The Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb”, “we were dancing to songs that were degrading to us.” The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band was the self-described “agit-rock” arm of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, an umbrella organization, “rooted in principles that came to be identified as socialist feminism, and focusing on projects in education, service, and direct-action, by and for women.” The Chicago chapter of the band’s lineup included: Susan Abod (bass, vocals), Sherry Jenkins (guitar, vocals), Patricia Miller (guitar, vocals), Linda Mitchell (manager), Fania Mantalvo (drums), Suzanne Prescott (drums), and Naomi Weisstein (keyboards). According to Weisstein, “she tired of hearing pop music glorify the subjugation and degradation of women…. [and] wanted to reach out to young women and at the same time, educate about the importance of feminist culture.” She continued “Every time it played, the band summoned up the ecstasy of a utopian vision of a world without hierarchy and domination. Audience and performer, gay and straight, two-year-olds and eighty-two-year-olds, black teenage girls and Latino transvestites: for a moment in history as brief as a shiver, we were, all of us, transformed and astonished.”
Mountain Moving Day is an album by The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band and the New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band, released in 1972, on Rounder Records.
Track listing
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A1 Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Secretary A2 Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Ain’t Gonna Marry A3 Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Papa A4 Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Mountain Moving Day B1 New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Abortion Song B2 New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Sister-Witch B3 New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Prison Song B4 New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band– So Fine B5 New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band– Shotgun - Recorded At – Aengus Studios
- Printed By – Advocat Press
- Pressed By – Wakefield Manufacturing – 19040
- Bass – Pat Oulette (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Bass, Vocals, Slide Whistle – Susan Abod (tracks: A1 to A4)
- Drums – Fania Montalvo (tracks: A1 to A4), Suzanne Prescott (tracks: A1 to A4)
- Drums, Vocals [Spoken] – Judy Miller (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Engineer – John Nagy, Susan Jenks
- Flute, Vocals – Leah Margulies (tracks: B1 to B5)
- French Horn – Virginia Blaisdell (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Guitar – Harriet Cohen (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Vocals – Sherry Jenkins (tracks: A1 to A4)
- Guitar, Vocals – Rika Alper (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Mixed By – Bill Riseman, John Nagy, Nick Kamoutzeas, Sherry Jenkins
- Photography By – Jennifer Abod, Virginia Blaisdell
- Piano, Electric Piano – Naomi Weisstein (tracks: A1 to A4)
- Producer – Bill Nowlin, Bruce Kaplan, Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton, Skip Ferguson
- Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Patricia Miller (tracks: A1 to A4)
- Trombone, Tenor Saxophone – Kathleen McClure (tracks: B1 to B5)
- Vocals, Tambourine – Jennifer Abod (tracks: B1 to B5)
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